Aetna Ditches Obamacare Because the Health Law Is Broken
Aetna exits the exchanges, citing massive losses and structural instability.
Aetna exits the exchanges, citing massive losses and structural instability.
Obamacare was bad, and its replacements look like a dog's breakfast.
They might not reduce premiums and won't fix the problems plaguing the individual insurance exchanges, but they will spread the political pain.
Not only can entitlement programs be rolled back, but politicians who do it can even get re-elected.
Reason editors Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Peter Suderman talk Trump, French election, health care, Colbert, and the FCC.
It locks in many of the worst elements of Obamacare while making actual market-friendly reforms next-to-impossible.
Supply-side restrictions like Certificate of Necessity leave people without the medical services they need, even if they can afford them.
For reasons practical and political, the waivers included in the AHCA to earn Freedom Caucus support might be mostly useless.
House Republicans say their bill repeals the ACA. Instead, it leaves the essential structure of that law in place.
The House will vote today on a bill without knowing the cost or what it will do.
The GOP never quite figured out how to think about broad health care goals.
The president can't negotiate a better bill if he doesn't understand the current one.
The GOP's Obamacare repeal is stalled because Republicans haven't made a case for its merits.
Refusing any voluntary hysterectomies presented as discrimination.
The deal floated by the president reveals his governing priorities.
More automation in health care could save lives, but progress is too slow.
Even if genetic testing is just brightly colored signage, it still has the potential to improve health outcomes.
Almost half of the GOP now backs Medicare-for-all.
Medical tort reform is overrated. And it's probably unconstitutional.
Medicaid is a terrible way to deliver health care to low-income Americans.
"Eighteen days does not a final product make."
It's hard to make a deal on a policy deal when you don't care about the policy.
President Trump is demanding a vote on a sloppily rewritten bill that could blow up the insurance market.
The Republican health care bill would still reduce insurance by 24 million and raise insurance premiums before 2020.
The AHCA will have to wait until tomorrow.
The House is planning a vote today on a bill that still isn't finalized.
"I think there are going to be some very confusing votes in here," Rep. Thomas Massie predicted in January. Here's how we got from there to here.
That's why it might go down.
Look beyond Medicaid to really cut dependence on Planned Parenthood while still ensuring that low-income women have access to medical care.
If universal access to medical care is the goal, the government is the goalie. It should get out of the way.
A live debate at the Soho Forum in New York City.
Healthcare reform can be deceptively simple.
Republicans have a risky multi-stage process in mind to take down the health law.
It's health care that matters, not health care insurance.
The Obamacare repeal bill landed with a thud, but the idea of pushing more Medicaid decision-making to the state level is likely to stick.
It didn't begin with Obamacare Lite.
Rand: "This is Obamacare light. It will not pass."
The House bill trades one set of tax credits for another.
State Rep says hospitals are "holding entrepreneurial physicians and clinics hostage" with CON laws. That's exactly right.
That's why the GOP's Obamacare repeal effort is flailing.